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... the beginning and the end ... of summer 07's spiral boot socken.
i am on gauge (size 2 lantern moon dpns, 7 sts/inch in stockinette) ... but ... i don't envision this sock staying up !
i may continue to knit like a lemming, as i so often do ....
i may cast on again with another ball on 2.5mm needles ... hmmm ....
Male - possibly hybrid Mallard (Anas platyrhynchos) at Rotorua, New Zealand. Photographed on 13 November 2002
Or perhaps stick insect eggs? Thanks to Paul Bertner for the heads up.
do compare Podisus eggs.
Out of focus is an ant-mimic mantis (Odontomantis sp)
Stipules. Thought those hairy leaf domatia would be a great help to ide this. Leaves large and totally hairy. Found at Davies Creek
(Randomly digitizing and archiving old photos.)
I can't remember if this was in Iran or Pakistan. Plenty of good music played with skill and enthusiasm and strong hashish at your beck and call (in another photo). I ate the food, enjoyed the music, but passed on the smoky stuff.
Apparently once described by Time Out as âthe best thing that has happened to Vauxhall - possibly everâ, COUNTER is definitely one of my favourite places in the area. A bar and brasserie restaurant living under one of the railway arches, COUNTER combines the fun, offbeat and slightly eccentric industrial vibe of New Yorkâs Meat Packing District with the familiar gritty surroundings of Vauxhall (which has always been great, yâall naysayers be damned!). Its front entrance is mere yards from the tube and train exits, though due to the somewhat labyrinthine and busy structure of the tunnels/street, it is harder to find than you may expect. Look out for the orange graffiti mural out front.
COUNTER claims to be Londonâs longest restaurant (Iâm not sure if they have verified this or not, but it is 60m in length!), and is divided into two halves. One side is the restaurant/bar proper, and the other side you shall find BackCounter - which is a cocktail lounge and event space. I spent most of my time in the restaurant area, testing out their food (which was quite a bit better than I expected) - they passed the 'blue steak test' with flying colours! The food on the main part a mix of American (those New York influences again) and French - for some reason. Drinks: some interesting craft beers, plus French and American wines (like the food, ONLY French and American choices to be had here - and nothing too expensive either). Thereâs also a reasonable selection of cocktails, many of which making reference to the local area (think: âVauxhall Slingâ). The bar is pretty cool too, all shiny brass running straight down the middle, mirror-adorned walls and secluded, comfortable booths.
Philip Reicherstorfer, the owner, is a happy German guy and Vauxhall resident - formerly in banking but raised in a hotelier family (he told me that because of this he knew heâd always come back to food). His vision for the place combines the lightheartedness of the gay scene with high quality food, and towards this end he managed to get Dan Blucert, ex head chef of The Big Easy in Covent Garden. You probably donât think of Vauxhall as much of a place to go for restaurants but COUNTER could and hopefully will have a part in reversing this trend. Iâd rate the overall experience as 8-9 out of 10 and am recommending it to all and sundry! Very well done COUNTER, hope to see you soon ^_^
Possibly a connection to Sizemore, Nantz, Pergrem, Combs, Wooton, Begley, Cornett, Maggard or other families of Eastern Kentucky
Possibly Arge Rosae, a sawfly. Not a true fly, but a relative of wasps and ants. (The antennae are a clue.) Not a very crisp shot as I've trouble with wind all weekend.
possibly Port Augusta - South Australia AN R39 flat wagon fitted with camp unit hut S102 (John Parkes Collection - Chris Drymalik Collection s0103)
possibly Port Augusta - South Australia AN R345 flat wagon fitted with camp unit hut S109 (John Parkes Collection - Chris Drymalik Collection s0101)
ISO 100 f/6.3
Tamron Lens AF 28-300mm Nikon D60
Messing with different exposures after reading Kent Weakley's post on Bokeh Photography and some Night Photography. Just playing with the camera
From October 2 to 14, 2025, I brought along with me my brand new Pentax 17 camera loaded with a 36 exposure color film Washi-X.
Washi-X color film (spooled in France) is likely Kodak Aerocolor IV Negative Film 2460, a film still in use for general use in medium- to high-altitude aerial-mapping and aerial-reconnaissance photography. It is suited for geological, pollution, archeological, crop and forestry studies; traffic control; city planning; railway, highway, and hydraulic engineering; oceanography; and remote sensing, as well as other areas where photogrammetry is use.
I own the Pentax 17 camera since April 2025. I appreciate a lot its image quality despite de 17x24mm format. It is the sort of camera remaining simple but capable to photography in almost all current conditions. It very compact, light and a joy to use. The Pentax 17 was equipped with a protective 40.5 screwed HOYA anti-UV. For the camera transportation, I used a small camera bag ThinkTank « Mirrorless Mover 5 » that was well protecting the camera from possibly damaging vibrations when using my bicycle.
The expositions were automatically metered by the camera system using the « P » program modes with, or without, flash. For very bright scenes the exposition was corrected by +0.3 to +1EV to compensate the biais induced (and reversely -0.3 to 0.7 EV for very dark scenes to objects).
October 13, 2025
"Le Chemin de l'Eau"
69660 Collonges-au-Mont-d'Or
France
After completion (78 frames), the film was givento local lab service for C-41 color processing.
Single-frame digitizing was made using a Sony A7 camera (ILCE-7, 24MP) fitted to a Minolta Auto Bellows III with the Minolta slide duplication accessory and Minolta Macro Bellow lens 1:3.5 f=50mm at approximate reproduction ratio of 1:2. The diffuse light source was a LED panel CineStill Cine-lite.
The RAW files obtained were inverted within the latest version available of Adobe Lightroom Classic (version 14.5.1 of August 2025) and edited to the final jpeg pictures without intermediate file. They are presented either as printer files with a frame or the full size JPEG's together with some documentary smartphone color pictures.
About the camera :
Since last Christmas 2024, it was on display in the middle of « reusable » cheap camera’s in the window of my local photography store. But this camera is not cheap and sold at 10-times the price of those « reusable » film camera’s. The Pentax 17 is a novel film camera released by Pentax (a brand belonging to Ricoh Imaging, Japan) in June 2024.
The history of « Pentax » name is still something worth to mention. After the WWII, in Dresden (that was heavily destroyed by the bombing of Feb. 13-15, 1945), Germany, The Zeiss Ikon company could not produce anymore the legendary original Contax (a high-reputation professional range-finder 35mm released in 30’s) camera that was taken by Russia and transferred to Kiev, Ukraine, in the USSR. However the brand name Contax survived and the German engineers designed something completely new within several years : the Contax S (S for « Spiegel mirror reflex ») that integrated a pentaprism for a full redressed reflex viewer observation. Zeiss Ikon Dresden registered to new trademarks derived from the words « Pentaprism » and « Contax » that were « Pentax » and « Pentacon ». If Pentacon became the new name of the company in Dresden, the trademark Pentax was bought by Asahi Optical Company in Japan, and became a formidable industrial and commercial success. Asahi Pentax, then Pentax alone, produced amazing quality camera’s including the legendary « Spotmatic » (a 35mm SLR) and stunning medium-format camera’s heavily used by professional photographers. Many of these camera’s of the past century are still operative and appreciated by film photography enthusiast’s.
Production of film camera’s vanished progressively in the mid 2000’s, as digital camera’s became of better quality and finally of generalized appliances in photography. The Pentax 17 was introduced to the market in June 2024, it was a big surprise for all the film photography lovers. Seeing a newly engineered brand-new film camera was a sort of renaissance of the film photography today of a growing interest worldwide.
The camera is a « half-frame » format on the traditional double-perforated 35mm film giving 17x24mm photograms. This format was not as popular as to classical 24x36mm (full-frame) format of most of the 35mm camera’s. However famous and quality half-frame camera’s were produced in the past including, the long series of Olympus Pen for example. Then, the Pentax 17 immediately attracted the attention of experimented film photographers and camera collectors, probably more than the officially targeted customers of the younger generations. Less than a year after, the future of the Pentax 17 and the film photography project of Pentax is questioned today. The chef-engineer who conducted the project in Ricoh company recently left and the marketing of Pentax 17 is now a question.
This finally decided me to buy an exemplary from my local shop and to discover this strange machine. The camera is of course guaranteed, even with a there-year extension after the camera registration on the Pentax website. The whole ergonomic is clearly derived from classical past 35mm camera’s with a fully mechanical film advance and rewind, a collimated Albada viewer, no digital display at all, only levers, barrels, crank and wheels… However inside is a automatic electronic exposure system with flash, the focusing is manual but the electronic mechanism moves the whole optical group with a micro motor.
The lens is a Cooke triplet 1:3.5 f=25mm equivalent to a 37mm of a 24x36mm format. The Cooke triplet is a photographic lens designed and patented in 1893 by Dennis Taylor who was employed as chief engineer by T. Cooke & Sons of York. It was the first lens system that allowed the elimination of most of the optical distortion or aberration at the outer edge of the image. It likely for this reason that the lens is unscripted curiously « Traditional » on the front lens ring… It is known that a Cooke triplet lens could give surprisingly good results with only three separated optical elements. The Cooke Triplet is still widely used in inexpensive cameras, including variations using aspheric elements, particularly in cell-phone cameras. The Cooke triplet consists of three separated lenses positioned at the finite distance. It is often considered that the triplet is one of the most important discoveries in the field of photographic objectives
The lens receives 40.5mm diameter thread filters that I use for my Zorki / Leningrad lenses Jupiter-8 2/50mm, Jupiter-11 4/135mm and Jupiter-12 2.8/35mm. The metal shade hood Minolta D42KA could mounted on the filter but I have to check is there is vignette induced.
The camera size is close to the original dimensions of a thread-mount Leica (called also the original Barnack Leica) which are, in a way, a sort of « Gold » size in the 35mm camera’s. I compared with my Zorki 1D year 1954 that is a straight reproduction of the Leica Iic. The upper deck of Pentax 17 is designed very clearly as a classical 35mm and we even find the original logo of Asahi Optical Company. The rewind crank is also a revival of past design seen on old Pentax SLR as my year-1971 Spotmatic SP in this seres of pictures.
The Pentax 17 is very light (about 300g) compared to those old ancestors that weight easily the double or the triple. It is then an effortless camera to carry. The Pentax 17 fits in the small ThinkTank bag (called « Mirorless Mover 5 ») that I recently bought to safely carry a film back of my Hasselblad or my Bronica 6X6 camera’s. In this tiny bag, the camera is protected for the element and vibrations due to cycling for instance.
Reference
analoguewonderland.co.uk/blogs/film-photography-blog/pent...
Key features and specifications
* Half-frame image capture (17 x 24mm)
* 37mm (equiv.) FOV F3.5 lens
* Zone focusing system with 6 zones
* Circular leaf shutter (F3.5-16)
* Built-in flash (6m/20ft at ISO100)
* Optical tunnel viewfinder with frame lines
* Exposure from 1/350 sec to 4 sec (+ Bulb)
* Supports films from ISO 50 to ISO 3200
Specifically the lens has:
1. HD coating, which maintains high performance of the lens, by using this PENTAX multi-coating. This also enables high contrast and high definition right to the edges.
2. SP coating (Super Protect) which helps to repel water and oil from the lens.
The fact that the focusing on the Pentax 17 is electronic i.e. the lens only moves when you half-press the shutter gives me faith that autofocus was already considered in the R&D stage.
Possibly John Edward Winblad I (1856-1914) circa 1880-1890
Notes:
Possibly John Edward Winblad I (1856-1914) circa 1890-1900. This photograph was unlabeled in the collection of Maria Elizabeth Winblad II (1895-1987) and there is a strong resemblance to the person that I have identified as John in the photograph of the family in Cuba. This person has the same square jaw in this photograph. There is also a possibility that the picture represents his son, Anton Julius Winblad II (1886-1975) around 1906, when he would be about 20 years old. Selma Freudenberg (1921- ) identified the picture as being Anton. However pictures of Anton from 1911-1912 exists and his face is rounder. The controversy will continue until a labeled copy is found, perhaps in the collection of Earl Winblad that now resides with Norman Winblad. Carol Eleanor Winblad also has a collection of photographs that belonged to Anton, as does Joe Nicholich who sent his collection to the Winblads in Nevada.
Some debate attributing a unit to this photo though to be taken in Aldershot late in 1914.
Most of the men have a visible Cross of Geneva on the sleeves, signifying RAMC, and the tartan is almost certainly Royal Stewart as worn by the Highland Field Ambulance RAMC - at that time little more than 200 men. Later closer to 700. Expanded to meet the requirements of treating the huge casualty rate in 51st Highland Division.
Pipers and drummers seen here. The young piper seen on the right with the magnificently bulled brogues could just about be my great uncle Peter Dow.